Acer developing an 11.6 inch Aspire One laptop?

Is Acer planning to build an Aspire One laptop with an 11.6 inch display? That’s what Macles is reporting, and the site does have a pretty good track record of breaking Acer-related netbook news.

If the rumor is true, the new Aspire One would have an 11.6 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel display with a 16:9 aspect ratio. It would also have an Intel Atom Z530 CPU and integrated GMA 500 graphics with hardware support for decode HD video. The Z530 isn’t exactly a speed demon, but it’s easy on the power consumption.

I’m reluctant to call a laptop with an 11.6 inch display a netbook, and to be fair, Acer hasn’t labeled this computer as such yet. But slapping the Aspire One name on it seems like a bad idea to me. I prefer the way Asus has done things so far, by differentiating between its netbooks with the Eee PC moniker and higher end machines like the Asus N10 series that look a lot like netbooks, but have higher quality graphics cards and other components.

But it sounds like the only thing separating the 11.6 inch Acer Aspire One from its netbook brethren is size. It will have the same processor as many netbooks and it will still be thin and light compared to full sized laptops. Am I being too rigid here? What do you think, can an 11 or 12 inch notebook be a netbook?

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I think you’ve been correct for months in saying that so-called “netbooks” are really just smaller versions of fully-functional laptop computers. I still think that by the time either Psion or Intel/Dell win their lawsuits, the name won’t be heavily in use anymore.

It was more critical for retailers and manufacturers to distinguish the capabilities of these devices when the differences were greater — tiny 7″ screens, small flash drives instead of hard drives, and limited operating systems. But that hasn’t been the case for months.

The old laptop trifecta is still alive and well. When it comes to portability, performance, and price, you get two of the three.

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9 years ago

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This would be the perfect candidate for the nVidia ION platform 🙁

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Yes, yes, yes! The future of netbooks is 11″ whether people like it or not. A computer is what it can display for you. Ten inches is just barely enough and maybe tweleve inches is too much, but it is only too much because we need something smaller then a sheet of paper and less then 3 lbs.

So, the only thing that needs to happen is the case size needs to be 10.7 inches or less if possible, and 7.7 inches wide or less less if possible. And 2.8 lbs would be nice as well.

In some ways the only true requirement is something light enough to carry and small enough to put in a small bag.

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9 years ago

Acer developing an 11.6 inch Aspire One laptop?

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I use my mini 1000 at 10.1″ and love it. I think the 10.2 and under rule you’ve been using is spot on. Laptops are bigger than notebooks, notebooks are bigger than netbooks and netbooks are bigger than palmtops. A category for everything and everything in its category. The world is in balance 🙂

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a netbook *must* have a sub-100% keyboard, so I think it ends somwhere like 10.5″.

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If it’s cheap and compact, well, then it’s definitely a “netbook”. And whether it’s compact or not depends on the size of the whole package, not just the display.

When I see so-called “netbooks” with 10″ displays but huge bezels around the screen, and a weight of 1.5kg, then why not put an 11″ display into the same case, and drop the stupid bezel?

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11″? No, stop already, and hurry up and release that promised revamped 9″! Given the inevitable associated price hike, the way this is going there will soon be 14″ and 15″ so-called netbooks with naff-all performance, no optical drive, etc, and costing more than their fully-equipped notebook brethren…

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9 years ago

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Portability, performance, and price have no universal definition. My Kaypro, weighing 15 pounds, was advertised as a portable computer. Nowadays I put portability and price above performance because a computer that I am reluctant to carry and reluctant to purchase does me no good. For other people, performance matters more because they want to get the features of a full-fledged laptop or desktop. The market inevitably is fragmented.